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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Consider the following:

Buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about this one? "James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Needs quotation marks

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I always hated that one because it only works because of the (incorrect) omission of punctuation. The Buffalo buffalo one doesn't need anything except the period at the end to be correct.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Bison*

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Didn't know buffalo was a verb.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It means to bully basically. The sentence can be rewritten as "Buffalonian bison that other Buffalonian bison bully also bully Buffalonian bison."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Don't let them buffalo them into believing that tripe.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

"Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo" is a tautology but still a sentence

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It gets worse:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

Rochester bison that Rochester bison bully bully Rochester bison

Capitalization is key for this one

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Buffalo: to puzzle or baffle; confuse; mystify